Table 4.

Mean and standard error of the SWPER global scores in each domain according to the world region*

Region	Number of countries	Attitude to violence		Social independence		Decision-making
		Mean	Std. error	Mean	Std. error	Mean	Std. error
South Asia	6	0.007	0.184	-0.155	0.149	0.072	0.139
East Asia & Pacific	5	-0.016	0.266	0.440	0.106	0.774	0.063
Europe & Central Asia	7	0.209	0.181	0.809	0.064	0.672	0.164
Middle East & North Africa	2	-0.281	0.455	0.140	0.149	0.161	0.247
West & Central Africa	18	-0.288	0.122	-0.403	0.071	-0.260	0.111
Eastern & Southern Africa	16	0.078	0.087	-0.006	0.088	0.388	0.070
Latin America and Caribbean	8	0.589	0.035	0.322	0.098	0.722	0.051

*These analyses used the countries as units of analyses, so they are not affected by the country population size.